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9:59 PM, Saturday March 2nd 2024

No need to apologize, people make mistakes and they learn. Just a matter of getting it figured out.

This link works, but that being said it seems like a bunch of the pages are missing. Seems there's 19 pages, most with 6 boxes each. So roughly half of your boxes are unaccounted for.

I'd recommend trying to upload them again, or uploading the missing pages into another album and submitting the second link, or maybe look into google photos/drive if you find it easier/preferred.

Next Steps:

Submit the rest of your boxes please.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
12:10 AM, Sunday March 3rd 2024
12:12 AM, Sunday March 3rd 2024

After 26 it says to click the box for the remaining 26 pages. I hope I got it right this time.

9:57 PM, Sunday March 3rd 2024

Everything seems to be here, thanks.

Congratulations on completing the box challenge, it's definitely a lot more work than most people expect. Not only does it help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. Be proud of what you've accomplished and that desire you've shown. That being said I'll try to keep this critique fairly brief so you can get working on the next steps as soon as possible.

Things you did well:

  • It's nice to see that you're taking the time to plan each of your hatching lines and space them evenly. This helps keep your boxes looking tidy rather than looking like they were rushed on to the page.

  • You're doing a great job of experimenting with orientations, proportions and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is an important habit to build when learning any new skill, it helps form a more well rounded understanding. I hope you'll continue to display and nurture this habit in the future.

Things you can work on:

  • You have some noticeable wobbling occuring in your lines. Remember that line confidence is our top priority and that accuracy will improve as we continue to build up more mileage.

  • There are times when your lines converge in pairs or you attempt to keep your lines a bit too parallel which results in them diverging. This is an example of lines converging in pairs, and this shows the relation between each line in a set and their respective vanishing point. The inner pair of lines will be quite similar unless the box gets quite long and the outer pair can vary a lot depending on the location of the vanishing point. Move it further away and the lines become closer to parallel while moving it closer increases the rate of foreshortening.

The key things we want to remember from this exercise are that our lines should always converge as a set not in pairs, never diverge from the vanishing point and due to perspective they won't be completely parallel.

Overall while you did make a few mistakes your boxes are improving so far and with more mileage you'll continue to become more consistent. Your linework is the most worrying thing and I'm hopeful you can address it on your own time, if it continues to be an issue you may be asked for revisions. That being said I'll be marking your submission as complete and move you on to lesson 2.

I'll also quickly mention that the box challenge was recently updated. I recommend reading/watching through it to see if it helps reinforce/clarify any concepts before moving forward.

Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups, and good luck.

Next Steps:

Move on to lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
3:30 PM, Monday March 4th 2024

thanks for input

3:57 PM, Thursday March 28th 2024

In the Lesson 2 Transition Gradient area can I have the light source coming from the left as it is in the 1st (direct) area? Seems more consitant to have the light coming from the same direction. So the black bar would be on te right as opposed to what is shown in te video

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